PROGRAM (Parallel & Special Sessions) (19/3/02)

[Papers will be available via the links on the day they are delivered]

Monday 14.45 – 16.15	Monday 16.45 – 18.15
Tuesday	Wednesday

A Detailed Map of the Central Campus can be obtained here.

[LT - Lecture Theatres are in the Science Building; B rooms are in the Science Building;

LIB rooms are in the Library; S rooms are in the Social Science Building

Monday 25^th March 2002 14.45 – 16.15

Session/ Room	Presenter	Author(s)	Title of Paper
Session 1 LT4	Santos, Georgina	Newbery, David M; Georgina Santos	Estimating Urban Road Congestion Costs YOUNG ECONOMIST
	Nolan, Anne	Nolan, Anne	The Determinants of Urban Households' Transport Decisions: A Microeconometric Study using Irish Data YOUNG ECONOMIST
	Lahiri, Sajal	Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Sajal Lahiri; Michael S.Michael	Reforms of Environmental Policies in the presence of Cross-border Pollution and Two-stage Clean-up
Session 2 SO11	Mahadeva, Lavan	Mahadeva, Lavan; Gabriel	Inflation Targets as a Stabilisation Device
	al-Nowaihi, Ali	al-Nowaihi, Ali; Livio Stracca	Non-standard central bank loss functions, skewed risks, and the certainty equivalence principle
	Neyer, Ulrike	Neyer, Ulrike	Asymmetric Information in Credit Markets and Monetary Policy
Session 3 LT5	McKnight, Phillip	Doukas, John A.; Phillip J. McKnight; Christos Pantzalis	Security Analysis, Agency Costs, and UK Firm Characteristics
	Kattuman, Paul	Higson, C.; S. Holly; P. Kattuman; S. Platis	The Business Cycle, Macroeconomic Shocks and the Cross Section: Evidence from UK Quoted Companies
	Todd, Steven	Nohel, Tom; Steven Todd	Stock options and managerial incentives to invest
Session 4 SO18	Kelsey, David	Kelsey, David; Frank Milne	Monopoly Externalities and Non-Profit Maximising Firms
	Monjon, Stephanie	Duguet, Emmanuel; Stéphanie Monjon	Creative Destruction and Innovative Core: Is Innovation Persistent at the Firm Level? An empirical reexamination from CIS data comparing the propensity score and regression methods YOUNG ECONOMIST
	Scarpa, Carlo	Panteghini, Paolo; Carlo Scarpa	Incentives to (irreversible) investments under different regulatory regimes
Session 5 LIB1	Yoon, Gawon	Granger, Clive W.J.; Gawon Yoon	Hidden Cointegration
	Sugita, Katsuhiro	Sugita, Katsuhiro	Testing for Cointegration Rank Using Bayes Factors YOUNG ECONOMIST
	Taylor, Nicholas	Taylor, Nicholas	Autoregressive hidden Markov switching\\models of count data
Session 6 LIB2	Chari, Anusha	Chari, Anusha; Peter Blair Henry	Capital Account Liberalization, Risk Sharing and Asset Prices YOUNG ECONOMIST
	Delfino, María Eugenia	Delfino, María Eugenia	Consolidation and competition. The case of the Argentine banking industry YOUNG ECONOMIST
	Caporale, Guglielmo Maria	Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Panopoulou, E; Pittis, N.	The Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle Revisited: A Monte Carlo Study
SPECIAL SESSION: Foreign direct investment and the productivity gap in the UK (LT3) · Rachel Griffiths (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Stephen Redding (London School of Economics) and Helen Simpson (Institute for Fiscal Studies) “Foreign Ownership and Technological Convergence at the Micro Level” · Richard Harris (University of Durham) and Catherine Robinson (University of Portsmouth) “Productivity Spillovers to Domestic Plants from Foreign Direct Investment: evidence from UK manufacturing, 1974-1995” · Sourafel Girma and Holder Görg (University of Nottingham) “FDI spillovers and the role of absorptive capacity: Evidence for the UK using quantile regression” Chair: Sourafel Girma (University of Nottingham) Discussant: Christopher Moir (DTI)

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Monday 25^th March 2002 16.45 – 18.15

Session/ Room	Presenter	Author(s)	Title of Paper
Session 7 LT4	Hendry, David	Hendry, David F; Michael P.Clements	Economic Forecasting: Some Lessons from Recent Research
	da Silva Lopes, Artur C. B.	da Silva Lopes, Artur C. B.	The Order of Integration for Quarterly Macroeconomic Time series: a Simple Testing Strategy
	Price, Simon	Kapetanios, George; Simon Price	Estimation and Inference in a Non-Linear State Space Model: Durable Consumption
Session 8 LT5	Loomes, Graham	Loomes, Graham; Chris Starmer; Robert Sugden	Do Anomalies Disappear in Repeated Markets?
	Dijkstra, Bouwe	Dijkstra, Bouwe	Samaritan vs rotten kid: Another look YOUNG ECONOMIST
	Humphrey, Steven J.	Humphrey, Steven J.	Do Individuals Learn To Maximise Expected Utility?
Session 9 LIB2	Teppa, Federica	Kapteyn, Arie; Federica Teppa	Hypothetical Intertemporal Consumption Choices
	Henley, Andrew	Disney, Richard; Andrew Henley; David Jevons	House Price Shocks, Negative Equity and Household Consumption in the UK in the 1990s
Session 10 SO11	Srinivasan, Naveen	Srinivasan, Naveen; Patrick Minford; Francesco Perugini	The Observational Equivalence of Taylor Rule and Taylor-type Rules YOUNG ECONOMIST
	Martin, Ben	Bakhshi, Hasan; Ben Martin; Tony Yates	How uncertain are the welfare costs of inflation?
	Milas, Costas	Martin, Christopher; Costas Milas	Modelling Monetary Policy: Inflation Targeting in Practice
Session 11 LIB1	Iyigun, Murat F.	Iyigun, Murat F.	Geography, Demography, and Early Development YOUNG ECONOMIST
	Suhrcke, Marc	Suhrcke, Marc	Preferences for inequality: East vs. West YOUNG ECONOMIST
	Stark, Oded	Stark, Oded; You Qiang Wang	A Theory of Self-Segregation as a Response to Relative Deprivation
Session 12 SO13	Chen, Yu-Fu	Chen, Yu-Fu; Gylfi Zoega	Exchange-Rate Volatility as Employment Protection
	Gatti, Donatella	Gatti, Donatella	European Integration and Employment. The need for fiscal policies coordination YOUNG ECONOMIST
	Ganelli, Giovanni	Ganelli, Giovanni	Fiscal Policy Rules in an Overlapping Generations Model with Endogenous Labour Supply
SPECIAL SESSION (Room LT3) Private provision of public services · Paul Grout (Bristol University) “What should the state buy?” · Oliver Hart (Harvard University) “Incomplete contracts; an ownership approach” · Patrick Francois (Tilburg University) “Not for profit delivery of public services”